Could Iran's Missiles Sink A U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier?

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Sebastien Roblin, National Interest: Could Iran's Missiles Do the Unthinkable: Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier?

The next threat the navy has to worry about?

On the morning of January 20, 2019, a six-by-six Mercedes-Benz truck in al-Kiswah, Syria crewed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps began elevating a missile mounted on its back into firing position. Once the nearly nine-meter long missile attained a roughly seventy-degree angle, it solid-fuel rocket blasted it on an arcing trajectory towards Mount Hermon, twenty-miles to the west on the Israeli-controlled portion of the Golan Height.

Skiers vacationing at the ski-resort there could see the contrails of the Fateh-110 (“Conqueror”) missile streaking towards them at three times the speed of sound (video here.)

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WNU Editor:  If it floats, it can be sunk. But it will be very hard to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier.



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